Connect for Global Change commitment to SDG 5
Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls are essential preconditions for building a global society based on sustainable development, social justice, and human rights. The Connect for Global Change project promotes this principle across all its activities.
Through its subgranting scheme, Connect for Global Change engages small and medium-sized CSOs across Europe, providing them with funding and involving them in a structured capacity building process.
To strengthen competencies in applying a gender-transformative and intersectional approach, Connect for Global Change has adopted a twofold strategy:
- The online toolkit — a compilation of tools and principles that support the design and implementation of projects, helping organisations integrate a gender-transformative and intersectional approach throughout all project phases;
- Capacity-building trainings — focused sessions on gender-transformative and intersectional practices, organised by each partner in their respective countries and aimed at the CSOs receiving funds through the subgranting scheme.
How Italian grantees are dealing with the Gender transformative approach?
COP (Network of Piedmont NGOs), the Italian partner of the consortium, organised a capacity building session on how to integrate a gender perspective into projects, in collaboration with Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini, for the CSOs implementing the ten funded projects.
The combination of lectures — to clarify key concepts and share data — and practical exercises and peer discussions created valuable exchanges and insights to inform current and future project implementation. Among the key takeaways:
- Local, neighbourhood- or school-specific data are often lacking; sharing monitoring data among different projects could help fill these gaps;
- Collecting data disaggregated (at least) by gender helps assess project performance and adjust actions to reach a more diverse audience;
- While maintaining an intersectional focus, it remains essential to identify common needs and avoid being overwhelmed by diversity.
Watch how the capacity building went:
Learn more about the gender-transformative and intersectional approach — explore the toolkit available in eight languages!